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Doctors in Ontario are experimenting with new treatment methods to combat a strain of gonorrhea they describe as being drug-resistant. The old treatment was simply an antibiotic in pill form but now this new treatment combines injections and pills.

The Planned Parenthood of Indiana is holding their annual Get Yourself Tested campaign for on April 12. April is National STD Awareness Month.

Officials have said that one age group in particular, senior citizens, has shown an alarming rise in sexually transmitted diseases.

A few One Direction band members are concerned about their health after they were urinated on by koalas while visiting an animal sanctuary in Australia.

According to the Centers for Disease Control, we're slowly losing our ability to fight gonorrhea, a common sexually transmitted disease.

Novosibirsk - A group of Russian scientists say that their study shows that men with STDs give odor that women say is putrid. The scientists say that humans, like animals such as mice, may be using sense of smell to sniff out attractive and healthy sexual partners.

Chlamydia. HPV. Herpes. Gonorrhea. Not easy topics for any parent to discuss with their children but with a growing number of teens being infected it's become very important.

Fort Collins - Scientists say it's probable that they may have documented the first case of a virus contracted by a man who was bitten multiple times by insects and then sexually transmitted to his wife, according to a study published on 'Emerging Infectious Diseases.'

Anchorage - An outbreak of gonorrhea across portions of the state of Alaska, that began in 2009, has continued throughout 2010 statistics show. Alaskan state health officials say they are examining new ways to try to control this STD and curb its spread.

Your smart phone may be getting even smarter; It may soon have an app making it "your mobile doctor," according to Dr. Tariq Sadiq, a senior lecturer and consultant physician in sexual health and HIV at St George's, University of London.